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Chicago examiner friday may 29 1908 14 pages vol vi no 137 a m price one cent delivered by carrier 30 cents per month break snell will riches jury's verdict gives richard snell the contestant 750,000 mabelle gets nothing children of thornton snell are given half of the 1,500 000 estate none of family present decision is reached by the jurors after an all night discussion clinton 111 may 29 the snell jury came in at 1:15 o'clock this morning with a verdict awarding 750,000 ot colonel snell's fortune to his only living son richard the children of thornton snell will also receive 750,000 this is the end of the sensational , trial to hreak the will of the million eire judge philbrick was aroused and went to court to receive the verdict after the jury had deliberated for seven hours the original will geve richard snell cs cents a week the breaking of it makes him almost a millionaire mabel snell mcnamara the protege of the dead man who was by the will to receive 1,200 a year gets nothing it is believed that it was the read ing ot mabel snell mcnamara's love letters which influenced the jury none of family present none of the family was present when the verdict was brought io only the at torneys being in the courtroom richard snell when communicated with said the verdict was what he had ex per-ted the jury retired at 6:30 p m they took with them the memory of the most dramatic day in court and of a thrilling climax that eclipsed in its intensity any pf the other extraordinary incidents of the trial the jurors heard two powerful denuncia tions the colonel's oniy living son rich ard snell who is contesting the will and mabelle snell mcnamara the millionaire's protege were excoriated mercilessly bases excoriation on the letters the woman was characterized as a vam pire and the son was pointed to as oue who had exhumed the body of his dead father to display it to the scorn of the world attorney richard lemon of counsel for the contestant based his excoriation of mabelle upon the love letters waving an imaginary mabelle letter ln the faces of the jurymen fs lawyer said hell could emit no curse so horrible in its suggess-venetss as the language used by mabelle ln her letters written to this testator thomas snell was sane until these bloodthirsty vampires took hold of him and hounded him to his grave richard snell entered the courtroom just es attorney barry ot counsel for the ex ecutor of the will was summoning all his eloquence to convince the jurors that rich ard was an undutiful son hears denunciation calmly the contestant in the case said mr barry here exhumes his father to show bis father's frailties in all their pitiful phases it is the son who brings all these letters into the case it is not our funeral dick snell heard the denunciation with comparative composure lie is himself a banker and is reputed to be worth almost a quarter of a million independently of the eld man's estate or his possible share in it judge phi-brick's instructions were vol uminous and little tendency iu favor of either side was discernible he charged the jury that even if it were proved that the testator was morally delinquent that this fact should not be taken as an indica tion that he could uot dispose of his prop erty as he wished 300,000,000 mortgage is filed by c b & q $ 16,000,000 to be spent by railroad in improving system burlington la may 28 the chi cago burllugton i quincy railroad com to-day filed a morigage for 3(10.000 poo the largest mortgage ever filed by a of the big bond issue 18,000,000 n^blll be used iu improving the system and g^b~._-000,000 in refunding indebtedness the of the remainder will be spread h r ''Â° a period of fifty years j p morgan b <- are selling the bonds in new ivtk senate orders inquiry into operators wages to prevent another strike la follette resolution calling for in vestigation of telegraph com panies is adopted washington may 28 the senate adopted to-day a resolution presented by senator lafollette of wisconsin directing the secretary of commerce and labor to investigate the conduct of telegraph and telephone companies the resolution leads liesolved that the secretary of the department of commerce and labor be and he is hereby directed to institute an investigation into all the telegraph and telephone companies engaged in the conduct of an interstate bnsiness as to the methods used in handling the public's business the wages of teleg raphers telephone operators and other employes of such companies and the working conditions of the employes thereof together with a statement of the receipts and expenditures of such companies for a period of five years and be is further directed to report the result of such investigation to the senate ou the first mouday in decem ber 1908 speaking to his resolution mr lafollette said : the senate need hardly be reminded mr president of the inconvenience to the business of the country arising from the telegraphers strike which occurred last season i am advised and i believe credibly informed that a referendum is now in progress among the different or ganizations of the telegraphers union looking to the ordering rf another strike i suppose it comes within the common knowledge of everybody tbat telegraphers are perhaps the poorest paid men engaged in business of that character i believe if the secretary of commerce and labor could be authorized to make this investigation and begin promptly that the strike might be averted new milk law would drive me to poor house i pathetic petition from aged dealer read to council committee a petition from an octogenarian milk dealer eugene c jones doing a small business at 1301 vj west lake street in which be set forth tbat bis means of liveli hood would be destroyed and he would be forced to go to the poor house by the anti hulk mild ordinance was a pathetic epi sode at a hearing by the health committee of the city council yesterday afternoon john o'donneil a wholesale milkman read the petition the old man declared tbat he found it impossible to get bis customers to buy milk in bottles or to get dealers to sell him bottled milk dr evans explained that the dealers could empty the bottles into pitchers or pails provided by the consumers the heaith department will submit to the council monday night a formal order asking approval of its action passengers in panic 3 hurt in trolley crash two trolley cars collided at forty-seventh and halsted streets last evening throwing the passengers into a panic and injuring three the cars were a south-hound hal sted street and a north-bound ashland ave nue the accident was due to the anxiety of the motormen to make the switch at tbis point the rear of the ashland ave nue car was demolished those who were injured were miss ester eck 146 king place miss mary connors and robert con nors they were all removed to their homes the motormen escaped injury by leaping before the crash came ordain sporting editor make him a pastor bloomington 111 may 28 john a schmink formerly sporting editor of the decatur review was ordained as a minis ter of the congregational church this week clergymen from all over central Illinois assembling the rev e s hay den dean of Illinois college jacksonville preached the sermon of ordination the rev schmink has been assigned to a pastorale at manchester la hearst gans 41 in recount of 6 more ballot boxes 23 fraudulent votes in one precinct for mcclellan plu rality is cut to 3,406 â€¢ law was openly defitd justice demands tally sheets to fix the responsibility for false returns new york may 28 forty-one votes fraudulently counted for mcclellan in the last municipal election on november 7 1905 were found in the six ballot boxes opened to-day in the quo w*arranto pro ceedings before justice lambert tn the supreme court these votes with the twenty-seven which were found to have been counted dishon estly for mcclellan in the first two boxes opened on wednesday furnished a total of sixty-eight for the first eight boxes re ducing mcclcllan's plurality on the face of the returns to 3.406 every box opened disclospd additional evidence as well as new methods of beat ing the count ou the part of the so-called bipartisan boards of election represent ing the two old political machines in this city they demonstrated further the glaring disregard for an honest coutit of ballots as well as an open defiance for the plain pro visions of the election law in the first box opened thirteen votes cast for william r hearst for mayor were deliberately stolen from his total having deducted them from the total for mr hearst the tammany inspectors added ten to mcclellan's count and the repub licans three to the total for william m ivins three blanks for mcclellan in the second box opened three absolutely blank ballots were counted for mcclellan and in the next one vote was taken from hearst's total and two added to mcclel lan's total in another three were taken from hearst and six added to mcclellan ln many respects the disclosures during the recount to-day were more startling than were developed during the first day the first box opened showed a change ln favor ot hearst of twenty-three votes this came as a surprise to every one in the courtroom even justice lambert ap peared to be aroused over this tlagraut ex hibition of a willful misconut where are the tally sheets of this dis trict he inquired as soon as clarence j shearn of counsel fo attorney general jackson finished teading the result of the recount who were the inspectors of election in this district and where is their tally sheet judge demands tally sheets counsel for mcclellan sought to pacify the court by handing up a copy of the i city record containing the official can vass the tally sheets he said are on file down ln the county clerk's office then let's have them said the court i want to know what was done and who was responsible for it this will not do at all this demand by the court for the origi nal documents made out and sworn to bv the inspectors of election after the count created a sensation in the courtroom and soon spread to the corridors of the citv hall * , hundreds of the followers of the sulli vans nnd foleys were waiting about to ob tain the latest results from the recount to say that it filled them with apprehen sion is to put it mildly the making of false returns is a felony punishable by severe sentences and the statute of limitations of five years srill has more than two and one-half vears to run before those who participated in these frauds will be exempt from punishment result of day's counk six boxes were disposed of to-day three of these were opened during the morning and three during the afternoon session i ls expected that eight or ten will be dis posed of to-morrow as justice lambert this afternoon directed that two boxes be canvassed at the same time the recount to-day resulted as follows mcclellan's hearst's gain gain 19th e d of the 4th a d . . 23 13th *Â£. d of the lst a j . . 3 bth e s of the bth ls â€ž 3 10th e d of the bth a s . . 6 3d e t of the 34th a d 1 1 lst e s of the lst a d .. 7 net grain for hearst 41 het g-ain yesterday 27 total grain in eight hoses 68 but for the liberal rulings of justice abducts friend's wife in auto is slain by rescuers bullet kilts ca.pt w w pat terson after he wounds one of pursuing posse woman beaten im flight captive is taken from buggy as she rides with doctor in country goshen hid may 28 after stealing his friend's rtfe at the point of a revolver carrying her a prisoner in an automobile for miles through the country boating and choking her in the view of farmers whom the flying motor car passed in the road and shooting oue man who tried to rescue the woman captain w w patterson of wawasee was shot through the heart and instantly killed at millersburg this after noon mrs j n sergeant of wawasee was the woman he abducted she has long been an intimate friend of captain patterson's wife an<i the two families were neighbors ser geant and patterson both operated launch es on lake wawasee why patterson wished to kidnap mts sergeant is a mystery mrs sergeant re fuses to make an explanation and indeed after the riotous scenes through which she passed to-day she is hardly in conditio to make an intelligent statement , stops buggy like road agent , she had been visiting at the home of ur | frank in ligonier and late in the after 1 noon dr frank started to take her home j in his buggy they had reached the vil lage limits when au automobile containing captain patterson and manager hoover of i the hotel goldsmith ar ligonier rushed | past them from behind turned squarely j across the road and stopped patterson i jumped out with a revolver in his hand he leveled it at d frank's head and shouted stop the doctor couldn't have driven by the automobile if he had felt inclined to make the attempt and he pulled the horse back with a sharp jerk on th reins what's the meaning of this he de manded the meaning is replied patterson that mrs sergeant is going to get into this auto or she is going to die where she sits get out of the buggy be continued addressing the doctor's companion mrs sergeant obeyed she was so frightened that she could hardly stand but she did not say a word to dr frank who sat in blank amazement and watched her climb into the automobile the cap tain jumped in after her and was off at full speed toward millersburg , strikes woman at once no sooner had the machine started than patterson struck mrs sergeant in the face and grasping her throat with both hands choked her until her face was black when he released her she screamed at the top of her voire and during the mad ride of three or four miles that followed her shrieks resounded through the country side like some terrible new whistle on a juggernaut the thing was so unusual so unheard of so inexplicable that the rural folk who beheld the spectacle were petrified with astonishment and never thought of trying to help the prisoner until the auto was half a mile or more away hidden ln a cloud of dust at millersburg something went wrong witb the machine and patterson was obliged to stop he left hoover to guard the prisoner while he went into a saloou to use a telephone mrs sergeant im proved the opportunity to break away and make a run for her liberty hoover who appeared to be as much amazed as anybody else by the events in which he had participated made no par ticular effort to recapture mrs sergeant and sbe took refuge in the house of charles kobinson auto posses take trail meanwhile dr frank had informed the authorities of ligonier marshal vonder smith and several deputies got into an automobile and started after the kiduaper they were followed by another automobile containing earnest frank an attorney of ligonier and a brother-in-law of captain tatterson albert erwin a ligonier saloon keeper and several other citizens tatterson had finished his telephoning nnd was hunting around for mrs sergeant when the rescuers arrived without wait ing for them to explain their errand the launch owner opened fire ou the party he shot three times one of the bullets wounding his brother-in-law frank in the left leg erwin the saloon keeper then drew his revolver and shot once at patterson who sank to the ground with a groan his heart pierced poses as federal officer hoover was full of apologies and badly frightened he said that patterson had represented himself as a federal officer and demanded his assistance in arresting a woman counterfeiter for whom he said he had a warrant i supposed i was doing the right thing he wailed mrs sergeant crouching under a table in the robinson home her eyes staring with fear could only weep and sob and gasp i want to go home i want to go home don't le him get me wind wrecked chimney church hit by lightning storm area sketch n.y cotton board guilty of gambling commissioner of corporations so reports to roosevelt after investigation washington may 28 the charge that the new york cotton exchange is a gam bling institution and not a mercantile ex change is virtually sustained in the report submitted to president roosevelt by her bert knox smith commissioner of corpo rations which was made public to-day mr smith's report is based on an ex haustive investigation begun shortly after the adoption by the house of a resolution intnoduced by representatives burleson and livingston on february 4 1007 that resolution was aimed to ascertain why the contracts sold on the new york and new orleans exchanges brought about such violent fluctuations iu the price of cotton and also to learn whether the mem bers of the exchanges by combining among themselves brought about depression in prices because under the terms of the con tracts they could deliver any one of thirty grades of cotton the house resolution followed close upon tlie filing of charges of fraud against the new york cotton exchange with post master general cortelyou by representa tive livingston and harvie gordau presi dent of the southern cotton association of atlanta on which a fraud order against the officials and members of the exchange was asked the charges include the fol lowing that new york city bas ceased to be a commercial spot cotton market and that the new york cotton exchange operating under its present debased and fraudulent contracts has developed into a purely speculative or gambling exchange and that the grades of cotton shipped to new yoili and tenderable on the contracts under the rules of the new york cotton exchange cannot be used for commercial spinning purposes and that such grades of cotton are used solely to depress the price of splnnable grades in the south to further the speculative features of the new york cotton exchange to the heavy detriment of the entire legitimate cotton trade of the united states mr smith ln his report indicates that he will have much more to say later on what we gave out for publication to-day he des ignated as parts two and three dealing with cotton exchange methods of classifica tion of cotton and with the tsng__f,t con tract jrrndes subsequent paris.^fc savs will take np the effects of ex_h^mlrtile and other conditions ufioa the a ft oil trust ready to start big n.y bank wall street sees in stillman's return move to control country's finances new york may 28 a merger of banks by the standard oil interests with a view to absolute control of uie money market of the united states was declared to-day in wall street to be the real reason for the sudden decision of james stillman to re turn to this city mr stillman who for years as president of the national city bank personally has directed the carrying out the banking schemes of the rockefellers and the rogerse sailed from cherbourg france wednesday when he left new york in january last wall street was led to be lieve he would be away for at least a year and in fact that he had retired per manently from active work whon therefore it was learned he had left paris and soiled for new l"ork it did not hesitate to attribute the reasou to the determination of the staudard oil men to push to a fiuish the scheme which it is known they long have had in mind of es tablishing a great central bank in new york which should act somewhat like the bank of england and regulate the money market but ouly to suit their ends slain after refusal to sing god save king light thrown on murder of three american women in canada ottawa out may 28.â€”the inquest at owen sound out iuto the death of mrs james creighton who with her two daughters were murdered there on i**hurs day has developed some startling features sunday was celebratÂ»d throughout canada as victoria day the family went to church sunday morning but the women refused to join in singing god save the king on the way home creighton asked why and they replied that they were citi zens of the united states and would uot sing the british national anthem creigh ton replied with an oath that he would have no one around his house who was not loyal to the british flag the three dead women were natives of port huron mich and came from there only a year ago \ huge chimney crashes on guests in a cafe , great stack blown against hotel brevoort by wind ; driving guests into rain j three hurt by bricks they were dining in absorb chophouse when missiles came through roof lightning strikes houses many families forced into street when their homes are en fire , Â„/ property valued at hundreds of thousands of dollars was de stroyed yesterday in the most violent hurricane lightning and rain storm from which Chicago has suffered in recent years scores of persons narrowly escaped with their lives while results of the storm included the complete destruc tion of brick houses the breaking of thousands of windows the toppling over of one hundred feet of chimney that reared itself above abson's chop house and the breaking of beams om their foundations at the new fores park amusement grounds until 20,000 worth of damage had been done at the brevoort house panic ensued when the metal encased chimney next door to the hotel toppled over against the building the accident which sent guests of the hotel and neighboring restaurants hurrying into the street in fear of their lives occurred just after 7 o'clock last night without warning the huge chimney crashed against the hotel it broke into sections and fell into an eight foot areaway separating the hotel from the watson building the crash of falling metal could be heard for blocks away ln the hotel 100 windows were smashed as tha chimney fell against the building and iron screens were torn from their fastenings fashionably dressed women dining at abson's hurried into the rain in vain their escorts and managers of the i restaurant urged them to remaia fail to stop hotel panic in the hotel similar scenes ensuert clerks and managers rushed among xjrrt guests urging them to remain calm tms with each successive crash as the falling bricks struck the sides of the building fresh numbers of guests ran into the driv ing storm / in the kitchen of the chop house john kled had a narrow escape from death from falling debris warned by the crash of the chimney he jumped to the side of the wall just as a portion of the chimney fell through the sky-light of the kitchen and onto the spot where he had been stand ing , mary kiencke and elizabeth wassowski kitchen maids in the restaurant were slightly injured by falling bricks paul redell a waiter was cut slightly about the head by fragments of the chimuey lights and phones damaged lu various portions of the city all tele phone snd electric light service was cripp.ed for hours by the storm fires were nunierous and seldom iu the history of tbo city have so many calls been re ceived by the fire department for as sistance in removing obstacles to traffic ia the downtown district basements were flooded during the day a church and hve hat buildings were struck by lightnln ln the morning lightning struck the spire of the germau lutheran church at one hundredth street and winston aveuue the are was extinguished after damage te the amount of 00 rÂ«s done at 7*7r west sixty-third street occupaflte of an apartment building were driven tntn the street in their night clothes wheh lightning struck the cornice ou the root a half hour later occupants of t_m flat building at west forty eighth and justine streets fled to the street wheo lightning struck the roof no one was injured but ihe bre lhat started was not completely extinguished for several hours families driven into rs.s lightning si*l tire to the roof of a build ing nt ninety-eighth street and vincennee avenue and two families stood in the rain while firemen fought tn save the struct nr damage i â– _.__,,.,*,, j^bj done in tho new p-ores i'firk a.uu^^h-r r aort by lightning just after i^k-'^^fe fci i - li '* ____________ is-'lli abii-fooi beams sl-trbj-jm w_m_aÃŸ continued on 2d page 3d column fiveather indications fif hicago and vicinity 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Chicago examiner friday may 29 1908 14 pages vol vi no 137 a m price one cent delivered by carrier 30 cents per month break snell will riches jury's verdict gives richard snell the contestant 750,000 mabelle gets nothing children of thornton snell are given half of the 1,500 000 estate none of family present decision is reached by the jurors after an all night discussion clinton 111 may 29 the snell jury came in at 1:15 o'clock this morning with a verdict awarding 750,000 ot colonel snell's fortune to his only living son richard the children of thornton snell will also receive 750,000 this is the end of the sensational , trial to hreak the will of the million eire judge philbrick was aroused and went to court to receive the verdict after the jury had deliberated for seven hours the original will geve richard snell cs cents a week the breaking of it makes him almost a millionaire mabel snell mcnamara the protege of the dead man who was by the will to receive 1,200 a year gets nothing it is believed that it was the read ing ot mabel snell mcnamara's love letters which influenced the jury none of family present none of the family was present when the verdict was brought io only the at torneys being in the courtroom richard snell when communicated with said the verdict was what he had ex per-ted the jury retired at 6:30 p m they took with them the memory of the most dramatic day in court and of a thrilling climax that eclipsed in its intensity any pf the other extraordinary incidents of the trial the jurors heard two powerful denuncia tions the colonel's oniy living son rich ard snell who is contesting the will and mabelle snell mcnamara the millionaire's protege were excoriated mercilessly bases excoriation on the letters the woman was characterized as a vam pire and the son was pointed to as oue who had exhumed the body of his dead father to display it to the scorn of the world attorney richard lemon of counsel for the contestant based his excoriation of mabelle upon the love letters waving an imaginary mabelle letter ln the faces of the jurymen fs lawyer said hell could emit no curse so horrible in its suggess-venetss as the language used by mabelle ln her letters written to this testator thomas snell was sane until these bloodthirsty vampires took hold of him and hounded him to his grave richard snell entered the courtroom just es attorney barry ot counsel for the ex ecutor of the will was summoning all his eloquence to convince the jurors that rich ard was an undutiful son hears denunciation calmly the contestant in the case said mr barry here exhumes his father to show bis father's frailties in all their pitiful phases it is the son who brings all these letters into the case it is not our funeral dick snell heard the denunciation with comparative composure lie is himself a banker and is reputed to be worth almost a quarter of a million independently of the eld man's estate or his possible share in it judge phi-brick's instructions were vol uminous and little tendency iu favor of either side was discernible he charged the jury that even if it were proved that the testator was morally delinquent that this fact should not be taken as an indica tion that he could uot dispose of his prop erty as he wished 300,000,000 mortgage is filed by c b & q $ 16,000,000 to be spent by railroad in improving system burlington la may 28 the chi cago burllugton i quincy railroad com to-day filed a morigage for 3(10.000 poo the largest mortgage ever filed by a of the big bond issue 18,000,000 n^blll be used iu improving the system and g^b~._-000,000 in refunding indebtedness the of the remainder will be spread h r ''Â° a period of fifty years j p morgan b (k y'-*f vou by renting &? the examiner will lfel v 4 assist you just insert a small ad in tjj \\ the rooms to rent columns and you jogf ss!_fr w h soon have it occupied